Crack forgotten Notes Mac password [duplicate]
Solution 1:
Hollywood does not have a great track record in accurately portraying technology.
The whole point of passwords and encryption is to make it as difficult as possible (if not impossible) to get in without the password.
Let's say your password was 8 letters long. Using 26 lower-case letters only, the number of combinations is over 200 billion, so trying each password in turn at 1 second each would take 6,500 years.
Your best bet is to think long and hard about the hint, and what you might have meant.